#Nishapur

Persian Rose, stay at home! 🇺🇸🇮🇷🏳️

Burning of the libraries of #Ctseiphon, Rayy, #Avicenna, Ghazna, #Nishapur or #Alamut in #Persia were some of hundreds of book-burning incidents! #Iran https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_incidentsHere’s a list: https://en.m.wikipedi

Jonathan Parkes Allen

Islamicate Architecture Tuesday returns with a look into one of the best known architectural and artistic components of the Islamicate world, muqarnas (a word of uncertain etymology), in its origin

Historians of Iran

HistorianofIran

@Rob_Haug back for day four of the eastern frontier. Yesterday I started talking about the eastern frontiers of the Sasanian Empire, but, surprisingly, had trouble fitting four centuries into a

SofianICo 🇲🇦

Ramadan, Jour 2 :l’Imam Al-Boukhari Né en 194 de l’hégire à Boukhara, dans la région de Khorasan en territoire perse, Abû `Abd Allâh Muhammad Ibn Ismâ`îl Ibn Ibrâhîm Ibn Al-Mughîrah

Amit Schandillia

[THREAD]1/25Barely three years since the 1857 Mutiny, Edward set up India's second brewry in Murree, a sleepy mountain resort near Rawalpindi. The town had a small British garisson that had

Siddharth Misra

Thread: Awadh, Nawabs & Lucknow.'Ayodhya' was the original Ramaraj place. Modified as Awadh, & Lakshman laid the formation of Lucknow. नवाबों की नगरी लखनऊ=अलहदा तहज़ीब। जिन्होंने अवध को

1. In modern Persian, zamin-dar means 'the one who holds land' but it might be related to Middle Persian Zamin-i dātbar (Land of the Justice-giver). Zamin-i dātbar/Zamindawar was capital of

Ausma Zehanat Khan

Thrilled to share with you the gorgeous US cover of #TheBladebone, the conclusion to my epic fantasy series, coming this fall! Designed by the amazing Chris Cocozza, it captures the

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

Going to start a new thread about battles, tactics, armies, warriors and military titles in Eastern and Western Iranic lands, right under this tweet. At the Battle of Gaugamela (October